html5 HTML5 + <audio> & <video>

[JoWa]

libaom v3.1.3 Released

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/tags/v3.1.3

[JoWa]

libvpx v1.11.0 Smew Duck Finalized

• Release Note
  This maintenance release adds support for VBR mode in VP9 rate control interface, new codec controls to get quantization parameters and loop filter levels, and includes several  improvements to NEON and numerous bug fixes. This release is available from the git repository and the v1.11.0 tarball along with the asc file.

• Upgrading:
  • New codec control is added to get quantization parameters and loop filter levels.
  • VBR mode is supported in the VP9 rate control library.
• Enhancement:
  • Numerous improvements for Neon optimizations.
  • Code clean-up and refactoring.
  • Calculation of rd multiplier is changed with BDRATE gains.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix to overflow on duration.
  • Fix to several instances of -Wunused-but-set-variable.
  • Fix to avoid chroma resampling for 420mpeg2 input.
  • Fix to overflow in calc_iframe_target_size.
  • Fix to disallow skipping transform and quantization.
  • Fix some -Wsign-compare warnings in simple_encode.
  • Fix input file path in simple_encode_test.
  • Fix valid range for under/over_shoot pct.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx/+/refs/tags/v1.11.0

Redigerad Oktober 7, 2021 av JoWa

[JoWa]

libaom v3.2.0 Released

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/tags/v3.2.0

[JoWa]

Rav1e 0.5.0 “Pumpkin”

[JoWa]

SVT-AV1 0.9 (2022-01-21)

Encoder

• New faster presets M9-M12, M12 reaching similar complexity level to that of x264 veryfast
• New multi-pass and single pass VBR implementation minimizing the quality difference vs CRF while reducing the cycle overhead
• Quality vs density tradeoffs improvements across all presets in CRF mode
• Added support for CRF with capped bitrate
• Added support for overlay frames and super resolution
• Fixed film grain synthesis bugs
• Added experimental support for higher than 4k resolutions
• Added experimental support for the low delay prediction structure
• Significant memory reduction especially for faster presets in a multi-threaded environment
• API configuration structure cleanup removing all invalid or out of date parameters
• Speedup legacy CPUs for faster development by adding SSE code for corresponding C-kernels
• Updated the code license from BSD 2-clause to BSD 3-clause clear
• Cleaned up the code for various kernels
• Updated the user guide and feature documentation

Build and Testing

• Bug fixes
• Improve CI coverage
• Improve Unit Test Coverage
• Address C vs asm mismatches
• Fix static analysis warnings / errors

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/-/releases/v0.9.0

Intel Releases SVT-AV1 0.9 For Quicker AV1 Video Encoding (Phoronix)

Redigerad Januari 23, 2022 av JoWa

[JoWa]

libaom v3.3.0 Electric-Sky Finalized

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/tags/v3.3.0

[JoWa]

Dav1d 1.0.0 ‘Peregrine falcon’:

1.0.0 is a major release of dav1d, adding important features and bug fixes.

It notably changes, in an important way, the way threading works, by adding an automatic thread management.

It also adds support for AVX-512 acceleration, and adds speedups to existing x86 code (from SSE2 to AVX2).

1.0.0 adds new grain API to ease acceleration on the GPU, and adds an API call to get information of which frame failed to decode, in error cases.

Finally, 1.0.0 fixes numerous small bugs that were reported since the beginning of the project to have a proper release.

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https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/blob/master/NEWS

[JoWa]

SVT-AV1 1.0.0 (2022-04-22)

Encoder

• Added S-frames support
• Added CBR Rate control mode for low delay
• Added support for chroma position signaling
• Added support for skipping denoising pictures after film grain synthesis
• Extend fast-decode support to cover presets M0-M10
• Simplified --fast-decode to have only one level
• Optimized --fast-decode level 1 for better tradeoffs
• Visual quality improvements addressing issues #1819 / #1297
• Visual quality fixes and improvements for both --tune 0 and 1
• Quality vs density tradeoffs tuning across all presets in CRF mode with TPL improvements
• Update default settings to use a longer gop / higher quality preset and lower CRF value
• Various code cleanups and memory optimizations
• Additional AVX2 optimizations
• Fixed all known functional bugs
• More robust rate control parameter verification

Build and Documentation

• Major documentation update and re-structure
• Added more user guides, preset differences and a common questions section
• Improved the documentation of the configuration parameters
• Improve CI coverage
• Reduced unnecessary warnings
• Improve Unit Test Coverage
• Address C vs asm mismatches

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/-/releases/v1.0.0

[JoWa]

SVT-AV1 1.1.0 (2022-05-17)

Encoder

• TPL tradeoff optimizations for 4L pred structure
• Quality-vs-cycles tradeoff improvements across all presets
• Add ability to force key_frame positions through ffmpeg for CRF mode
• Minimize the quality impact of fast-decode while maintaining the decoder speedup
• AVX2 optimizations for low delay mode
• Fix VQ issues #1896 #1857 and #1819

Build, Cleanup and Documentation

• API / ABI cleanup and implement independent versioning
• Add UEB_DLL for static linking with pkgconf
• Update system requirements docs
• Rate control code refactoring
• Fix AVX512 vs AVX2 mismatch

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 ... ses/v1.1.0

[JoWa]

libaom v3.4.0 Fluttershy Released

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/tags/v3.4.0

[JoWa]

AOM AV1 v3.4 Encoder Brings Better Performance (Phoronix)

[JoWa]

libvpx v1.12.0 Torrent Duck Finalized

Release Note

This release adds optimizations for Loongarch, adds support for vp8 in the real-time rate control library, upgrades GoogleTest to v1.11.0, updates libwebm to libwebm-1.0.0.28-20-g206d268, and includes numerous bug fixes.

This release is available from the git repository and the v1.12.0 tarball, along with the asc file.

• Upgrading:
  • This release is ABI compatible with the previous release.
  • vp8 support in the real-time rate control library.
  • New codec control VP8E_SET_RTC_EXTERNAL_RATECTRL is added.
  • Configure support for darwin21 is added.
  • GoogleTest is upgraded to v1.11.0.
  • libwebm is updated to libwebm-1.0.0.28-20-g206d268.
• Enhancement:
  • Numerous improvements on checking memory allocations.
  • Optimizations for Loongarch.
  • Code clean-up.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix to a crash related to {vp8/vp9}_set_roi_map.
  • Fix to compiling failure with -Wformat-nonliteral.
  • Fix to integer overflow with vp9 with high resolution content.
  • Fix to AddNoiseTest failure with ARMv7.
  • Fix to libvpx Null-dereference READ in vp8.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/ ... gs/v1.12.0

[JoWa]

SVT-AV1 1.2.0 (2022-08-02)

Encoder

• Improve CRF preset tradeoffs for both the default and fast-decode modes
• Improve the SSIM-based tradeoffs of the presets without impacting those of PSNR / VMAF
• Improve CBR mode by enhancing the bit-distribution within the gop
• Added support for reference frame scaling
• Added support for quantization matrices
• Added svtparams patches applicable to ffmpeg 4.4
• AVX2 optimizations for low-delay mode
• TPL-based VBR mode improvements
• Improved Chroma RDOQ
• Improve TPL QP Scaling
• Add length info to ivf header
• Fix support for metadata pass-through
• Add ability to specify Chroma and Luma qindex offsets independently on top of CRF qp assignments

Build, Cleanup and Documentation

• Fix multiple API documentation mismatches
• Updated features documentation
• Various functional bug fixes

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 ... ses/v1.2.0

[JoWa]

libaom v3.5.0 Gladmane Released

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/tags/v3.5.0

[JoWa]

Bringing the best live video experience to Cloudflare Stream with AV1 (The Cloudflare Blog)

[JoWa]

SVT-AV1 1.3.0 (2022-10-18)

Encoder

• Port SIMD optimizations from libDav1D making the conformant path (Inv. Transform) faster
• Enabling smaller mini-GOP size configurations and tuning it for the low delay mode
• Tuning the low-latency mode in random access targeting latencies from 250ms to 1s
• Adding GOP-constrained Rate Control targeting low-latency streaming applications
• Optimize mode decision features levels for depth partitioning, RDOQ, MD stage0 pruning in-loop filtering temporal filtering and TPL adding more granularity and gaining further quality
• Preset tuning M0-M13 to smooth the spacing and utilize the quality improvements towards better tradeoffs

Build, Cleanup and Documentation

• Update preset and API documentation
• Various functional bug fixes
• Remove the use of GLOB in cmake and use file names

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/-/releases/v1.3.0

Redigerad Oktober 20, 2022 av JoWa

[JoWa]

SVT-AV1 1.4.0 (2022-11-30)

Encoder

• Adopted the 6L / 32-picture mini-GOP configuration as default and adjusted MD feature levels accordingly yielding higher compression efficiency gains
• Update the TPL model to account for the larger mini-gop size
• Re-tune presets M0-M12 using the gained coding efficiency for improved quality vs cycles tradeoffs
• Allow duplicate commandline parameters to be parsed and take into consideration the latter to allow AWCY integration

Build, Cleanup and Documentation

• Make include and lib paths friendly to abs and rel paths
• Update preset and API documentation
• Various functional bug fixes
• Remove manual prediction structure support

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/-/releases/v1.4.0

Rav1e 0.6.1 (2022-11-30)

Rav1e 0.6.0 (2022-11-30)

Redigerad December 2, 2022 av JoWa

[JoWa]

1.4.1 (2022-12-12)

Bugfixes:

• Fix CRF with maxrate bug causing bitrate to be significantly limited for CRF encodings
• Fix command line parsing forcing 1-pass in a 2-pass encoding mode when the --keyint=xs format is used
• Fix decoder segfault due to assuming aligned buffers in the inverse transform assembly

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 ... ses/v1.4.1

[JoWa]

Rav1e 0.6.2 (2022-12-26)

[JoWa]

HandBrake 1.6.0 har AV1-kodaren SVT-AV1 1.4.1.

LibVPX 1.12.0 för VP8 och VP9.

I en kommande version tas VP8 och Theora bort.

[JoWa]

libaom v3.6.0 Helia Released

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/tags/v3.6.0

Rav1e 0.6.3

Redigerad Februari 8, 2023 av JoWa

[JoWa]

libvpx v1.13.0 Ugly Duckling Finalized

Release Note
This release includes more Neon and AVX2 optimizations, adds a new codec control to set per frame QP, upgrades GoogleTest to v1.12.1, and includes numerous bug fixes.

This release is available from the git repository and the v1.13.0 tarball, along with the asc file.

• Upgrading:
  • This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.
  • New codec control VP9E_SET_QUANTIZER_ONE_PASS to set per frame QP.
  • GoogleTest is upgraded to v1.12.1.
  • .clang-format is upgraded to clang-format-11.
  • VPX_EXT_RATECTRL_ABI_VERSION was bumped due to incompatible changes to the feature of using external rate control models for vp9.
• Enhancement:
  • Numerous improvements on Neon optimizations.
  • Numerous improvements on AVX2 optimizations.
  • Additional ARM targets added for Visual Studio.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix to calculating internal stats when frame dropped.
  • Fix to segfault for external resize test in vp9.
  • Fix to build system with replacing egrep with grep -E.
  • Fix to a few bugs with external RTC rate control library.
  • Fix to make SVC work with VBR.
  • Fix to key frame setting in VP9 external RC.
  • Fix to -Wimplicit-int (Clang 16).
  • Fix to VP8 external RC for buffer levels.
  • Fix to VP8 external RC for dynamic update of layers.
  • Fix to VP9 auto level.
  • Fix to off-by-one error of max w/h in validate_config.
  • Fix to make SVC work for Profile 1.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx/+/refs/tags/v1.13.0

[JoWa]

Dav1d 1.1.0 “Arctic Peregrine Falcon”

Dav1d 1.1.0
1.1.0 is an important release of dav1d, fixing numerous bugs, and adding SIMD

• New function dav1d_get_frame_delay to query the decoder frame delay
• Numerous fixes for strict conformity to the specs and samples
• NEON and AVX-512 misc fixes and improvements
• Partial AVX2 12bpc transform implementations
• AVX-512 high bit-depth cdef_filter, loopfilter, itx
• NEON z1/z3 optimization for 8bpc
• SSSE3 z1 optimization for 8bpc

“From VideoLAN with love”

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/releases/1.1.0

[JoWa]

Opus 1.4.

Opus 1.4 brings the following improvements and fixes:

• Improved tuning of the Opus in-band FEC (LBRR). See the #2360 for details
• Added a OPUS_SET_INBAND_FEC(2) option that turns on FEC, but does not force SILK mode (FEC will be disabled in CELT mode)
• Improved tuning and various fixes to DTX
• Added Meson support, improved CMake support

In addition to the improvements above, this release includes many minor
bug fixes.

https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/opus/-/tags/v1.4

[JoWa]

SVT-AV1 1.5.0 (2023-04-26)

Encoder

• Optimize the tradeoffs for M0-M13 speeding up M5-M1 by 15-30% and improving the BDR of M6-M13 by 1-3%
• Create a new preset MR (--preset -1) to be the quality reference
• Optimize the tradeoffs for M8-M13 in the low delay encoding mode (!2052 !2096 and !2102) for SC and non-SC modes
• Add dynamic minigop support for the random access configuration enabled by default in M9 and below
• Add support to allow users to specify lambda scaling factors through the commandline
• Rewrite the gstreamer plugin and updating it to be uptodate with the latest API changes
• Add skip frames feature allowing the user to start encoding after n frames in the file
• Add ability to specify a smaller startup minigop size for every gop to enable faster prefetching
• Fix segmentation support and re-enable it with --aq-mode 1 to allow work on the region of interest API
• Add padding bytes to the EbSvtAv1EncConfiguration configuration structure keep its size unchanged until v2.0

Build, Cleanup and Documentation

• Major cleanups for unused variables, static functions, and comments formatting
• Reduce the size of variable names for an easier code read
• Refine app level parsing and reference scaling API calls in the application
• Add dynamic minigop documentation along with updating the documentation accordingly

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 ... ses/v1.5.0